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T HE MA R 0 0 N TIGER
new and old voices
THE OLD REGIME SPEAKS
By Thomas Kilgore
The Student Activity Committee has successfully come
to the close of its fourth year of service. I say success
fully, iwth the hope that the many blunders which have
been made by this organization have been “successfully”
kept from the public.
For four years this organization, with the co-operation
of the student body, has carried on the various campus
activities in such a way as to clearly demonstrate stu
dents’ ability to operate their own activities, and to de
velop and perpetuate democratic student government.
Each year the committee has made definite advances, and
progress has been realized.
The activities of the committee o ft he present year
have not been unlike those of the other three years. We
have witnessed some of the same successes and failures.
However, we feel that certain acts on our part have
placed us in position to receive credit for having made
some progress. For the first year in its history, the com
mittee has operated separately from the college. With
our own bank account, system of budgeting, etc., we have
been very mindful to steer clear of a deficite, because the
college no longer assumes our obligations. This we
think is a very definite step towards teaching students
to shoulder responsibility and plan for themselves. The
creation of the Student Adjustment Committee, a sub
sidiary body to tbe Student Activity Committee, has done
much to solve discipline problems, and is worthy of be
ing continued. Along with these two changes the com
mittee has kept up its regular activities, which included
the International Debate, with a team from the National
Unior of Students of England; the Annual Shakesperean
play, and many other attractions of general interest.
It is the sincere hope of the committee of 1934-35 that
the new committee will profit by all our mistakes, and
rise to heights unknown to us. We humbly submit to
you the great task of waging war against any deadly
influence which might creep in and destroy the glorious
freedom we now enjoy, and of putting forth every effort
to perpetuate our student government on a purely in
tellectually democratic basis.
THE NEW ONE ANSWERS
Fellow Students of Morehouse:
You have dared to invest your trust in us, the Studen:
Activities Committee for 1935-36 and we pledge our
selves to remain true at all times to the highest hopes
which you may ever hold for us. We sincerely feel that
the tasks of duty, of service and of leadership, which
have been delegated to us are no less than individual
opportunities to prove to you. to ourselves, and to the
world that there is strength, there is courage, and there
is worthiness in the aims of American youth. Because
of the liberal attitude of our administration, and of our
proximity to the every-day world we, as students of
Morehouse College, are particularly fortunate in this
respect. We of the committee are compelled to recognize
a challenge in being selected to serve as custodians of
your various budgets and to serve in the capacity of your
official representatives. We feel that it is ours to meet
the challenge through brilliant and worthy achievement,
or evade the issue in a miserable display of incompe
tence. We dare to choose the former, and in due season
to lay before you a task well done.
There is no doubt in the minds ot the true sons of the
college as to the value of concerted effort. Next year
shall be no exception, for we shall call upon “every man
to get a man,” that we may be insured of definite success
in every undertaking. The committee shall aim to be a
dynamic part of a more dynamic unit — the general
student body. It shall be yours and mine to make or to
mar. Fellow students, let’s choose to make!
Drew Days, Chairman
Student Activities Committee, 1935-36
A FOND HOPE
Here’s hoping that the students will continue to realize
their responsibility to the Maroon Tiger staff for the
coming year, or rather, that they will cultivate a better
responsibility. Mr. Mclver had to deal with a student
body who thought that the editor and bis staff wrote the
paper. Let us hope that this erroneous impression is
wiped out. In spite of writing slackness, Mr. Mclver
was highly successful and should be complimented. Mr.
Bailey, before Mr. Mclver, is to be complimented in
that he overcame the same difficulty. There must dawn
in the minds of the students the fact that the Tiger is
their official organ of expression and that the editor is
merely the last word before its publication. We always
cry for a freedom of the press and we have that on our
campus. Why not use it? Come on. fellows, unwind
the coils of the God of Morpheus from around the ol'
fountain pen and express yourselves. Ecrivez! May
we hope to find next year a better student opinion and
better student support. A student body that expresses
itself through its official medium will perpetuate a cer
tain tradition around the campus. As we perpetuate
wholesome traditions we make the Morehouse spirit a
living thing.
.1. C. L:
SENIOR WEEK
The week of May 20th was set aside and called Senior
Week. The entire five days were turned over to the
graduating class so that the Seniors might show the-
lower class how much they knew. Mukasa spoke on busi
ness; Ross on the theatre; Mclver on politics; Burgess
on biology; and Kilgore spoke on everything, if I re
member correctly. He also threw a torch to the Junior
class. It was caught by John Long, official torch-retriever
of the Juniors. Everyone enjoyed the showing off that
week.